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Heelshock
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Sep 05, 2013

The battery that came with my travel trailer THE battery?

I've learned quite a bit about battery maintenance recently...at the expense of my Exide 24MDP. It's time to replace it. In fact, my plan is to use 2 batteries in parallel to help in our dry camping adventures. Not taking brand or battery type into consideration, is there any reason why I couldn't bump up to a 27?
  • Heelshock wrote:
    Good points. When in storage I had no idea how many Ah I was drawing per day with that car stereo being on standby and the CO2 detector. I recall the camper dealer telling me it would be no problem (but, of course, that's their standard answer to just about anything).

    I ended up going with 2 new group 24's. I'm going to pull them when the camper goes in storage, and charge and maintain them. With or without my little 25 watt solar panel (which I've now learned will do close to Jack Squat) I think this will be more than enough to get us 3 days of dry camping with spit showers and minimal led lighting.


    If you disconnect that radio, and the your rig is stored in the open (sun) that little 25W rig should maintain the batteries while stored as long as they are fully charged to start with.

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